Grape toxicity - and that includes raisins - is a recently recognised phenomenon in the veterinary world.
This week's Pat Kenny Show vet spot started with an interesting fact about the way dogs defaecate: you'll have to listen to the podcast by clicking on the play button below to discover what that was.
On the Pat Kenny Show today, we discussed why it's such a bad idea to give puppies as Christmas presents.
Don't give pets as presentsPets never make good Christmas gifts and should never be bought on a whim or given as a surprise.
Christmas is a time when humans enjoy food, but there are some seasonal human foods that can cause problems for our pets. Foodstuffs that can poison petsChocolate contains the stimulant theobromine.
On this week's show, we discussed why Santa is reluctant to give pets as presents. Also, Pete told us about a Christmas crisis he had to face the evening before.
This week on Ireland AM, Pete told the story of Kiko stealing Christmas pudding the previous evening.
Christmas presents for pets and owners? Why not? This week Ireland AM featured a woman who spent €7000 on her new dog, between purchase price of pup and a range of pet accessories including a doggy ..
A social media storm has been raging since Sunday, when the Independent newspaper published an account of a journalist buying a Christmas puppy as a present for her husband.
Last week, I called in with the Ireland AM team to the Dogs Trust Centre in Finglas, Dublin to chat to Mark Beazley, Executive Director at Dogs Trust.
On this week's show, we discussed "the perils of getting a pup as a present for Christmas" following a recent campaign by Dogs Trust.
Pete the Vet (wearing an elf costume) discusses various Christmas pet care issues, as well as answering listeners' general queries (such as a terrier with a nose-licking obsession).
On Ireland AM this week, we discussed the hazards associated with giving pets the wrong foodstuffs, especially the danger of feeding poultry skin to dogs over Christmas.
It’s easy to spoil pets at Christmas time, but it’s easy to create problems by giving the wrong foods or too much of the right foods. To find out more, listen to this podcast by clicking o ..
Christmas is a time to enjoy with family and friends- a time of year for relaxing and forgetting about the usual daily hassles and stresses.
The focus of the vet spot this week was that phrase coined by Dogs Trust that has become a part of common speech: "A Dog is For Life, Not Just for Christmas".
Every year, part of my job as the Daily Telegraph pet columnist involves putting together a list of new and interesting Christmas gifts with a pet theme.
